Tickle me Tuesday November 25, 2008

My post probably won’t be as interesting as my title…just sounded good. It has been nice having this short week, and I’m getting excited to begin the Thanksgiving festivities. I’ll be in the kitchen peeling, chopping, mixing, and baking—sounds good to me!

Chris didn’t feel so hot today from a cold or something he has, so he stayed at home with Lily. I got up late again, desperately wanting to sleep even more, and did the usual routine to get ready. TOTALLY forgot about the don’t-go-outside-per-the-allergy-treatment again this morning, so I’m sure the tree pollen treatment didn’t stick again. Poo.

On the way to work I called 24 Hour Fitness to sign up for the yoga class, as the 6:30pm Tuesday class has a * next to it indicating you need to sign up in advance. The chick at the front desk told me I had to sign up in person, and that if I did it more than 1 hour before class I had to pay $1. Okay, so I figured I’d head to the gym early and do some cardio. More on this topic later…

When I got to work I microwaved my oats, got my cup of coffee ready, and began the morning reading session (email, company webpage and news, market news). I worked in a semi-dark office today, with just the lamp on in the office, and it was nice and peaceful. I’m sure my oats enjoyed being consumed in the darkness, too–they couldn’t see me coming as well 🙂

[imagine oatmeal here]

Okay, WTF, I swear I took a pic of my oatmeal and there is nothing on my memory card… strange. It was steel cut oats, part pumpkin spice Silk, part water, slivered almonds, and raisins. I find that adding a touch more of water after nuking them for 2 minutes makes them the perfect consistency. Yummy!

Plugged away on work and personal BS for awhile, and heard my officemate say she was hungry but had to wait for her husband to come by like an hour later. I waited to eat til after she left b/c I thought it would be cruel to eat in front of her. She left just before 1, and I enjoyed my wrap: low fat tortilla, turkey, spinach, broc slaw, and 1/2 a wedge of Laughing Cow Light. I forgot the balsamic, but the wrap was still plenty good.

That’s a Varied Thrush on my wallpaper. One of my fave birds!

Plugged away some more, and did more nutrition research. Along the way I found out that Utz is a real snack company! On Mad Men this season (best drama ever!), Sterling Cooper handled the Utz account and I never knew it was a real company. I guess their products aren’t distributed here… I was looking on caloriecount.about.com for tortillas and their tortilla chips came up, too.

Around 3 I had a really tasty snack: Danon Light and Fit vanilla yogurt, slivered almonds, 1/2 a nanner sliced, and cinnamon. It was heavenly! Of course I totally choked on one bite of banana with lots of cinnamon and had a tickle in my throat for a few hours.

“Eat me!”

Chris’ mom called me, and we ended up talking for like 25 minutes about random stuff, and Thanksgiving. She’s poultry intolerant, so I wanted to figure out what kind of protein she wanted instead. A few things she said made me nervous about our dinner; let’s just say it should be entertaining if someone says something she doesn’t like 😐

I left work around 4, and found somewhat heavy traffic on the way home. Boo, I hate traffic, especially lately! Makes me not want to take the highway home, and perhaps head the back way until the fall/winter nightmare highway traffic subsides. I don’t even want to think of what it’ll be like tomorrow as everyone flees town for their Turkey Day destinations. I can’t wait until I live less than 18 miles from work…

I got home to find my honey had stayed in bed all day, and he didn’t eat anything! 😦 Never a good thing… so I heated up two halves of stuffed pepper from the other night, and made sure he had everything he needed. I got dressed for the gym and had a snack while doing so: Clif Nectar cranberry, apricot, and almond bar. I like the texture of these bars, and the fact that they have like 4 or 5 ingredients. Simple=good.

I was all anxious to get to the gym and reserve my place in the yoga class, so I headed out hoping I’d get there at about 5:30. On the way to the gym I realized I forgot a towel, but, alas, I had a $5 coupon for the pro shop from when I activated my membership! I signed in, and then asked the guy for the yoga sign up sheet. He acted like I was speaking Greek, and then got it, only to say “you don’t need to sign up.” Huh? Then why did the girl this morning say I had to? And why is there a * next to it on the schedule? Grrr…sort of frustrated by that, but glad I didn’t have to worry about it in the future.

I hit the elliptical for about 35 minutes, cranking Justin Timberlake and some other tunes for a little help. It felt good, and I was excited to head upstairs at 7:30 for yoga. The class was great, it was warm in the room, and I had a mild sweat going the whole time. Nothing like a little sweat to reassure you you’re working hard 🙂 Most of the poses felt more natural this time around, and the flow of things was a bit easier, too. It was challenging, though! We did half-moon and bird of paradise in the mix; half-moon went well, but bird felt awkward and probably didn’t look so pretty.

On the way home I stopped off to buy Thanksgiving protein for Chris’ mom, and a few more parsnips for my roasted winter veggie dish. I thought a few people looked at me funny at the gym and the store, and when I got home I saw why—I had some mascara under my eyes and on my cheek! When I was sweating in yoga I must have been a little hasty with the towel and smeared it. Woops! Mental note to check the face in the mirror before I leave the gym.

I was looking forward to reheating the last half of stuffed pepper for my dinner, but got sidetracked in a conversation with Mama. Finally, around 8:15 I had my glorious little friend, who looks a little splayed b/c I cut and smooshed him to heat better in the micro.

I added a spoon of low fat sour cream for shits and giggles.

Tasty dinner, and now I sit here around 10 doing my blog. Sheesh, where did the time go! I gotta get crackin’ on adding some things to eBay; there’s a 50% off listing promo through today, and it is nudging me to finally list some things I’ve had sitting around to sell.

Hope you had a nice Tuesday, and thanks to everyone who read my blog today! Over 40 of you were kind enough to stop by. Please do leave comments, feedback, suggestions, whatever… I love reading your comments 🙂

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7 Responses to “Tickle me Tuesday”

I thought Utz was fake too until I saw Mark mention them on Hangry Pants. Last week when I was at Costco I saw Utz pretzels! I think they were pretzels, I didn’t get that close, but they were definitely the Utz brand. I guess Mad Men uses only real products. Love that show!
Mmmmm parsnips! I haven’t had any recently and I have no idea why!

I’m such a dork, I can’t remember right now. I think I got half Braeburn and half ????? I read the descriptions of every apple they had and whether they were good for baking or not. I’ll check when I get home later. I’ll be peeling and chopping up a storm tonight and tomorrow to prep everything.

Wow, sour cream on a banana actually does sound good! With maybe a little cinnamon…mmmm. Do you eat vegan sour cream? I’m hearing lots of good things about veganaise and other vegan “dairy” products. Thanks for the comment!